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Professor Behring claims to have obtained a protective serum against tuberculosis by his method of jennerization.

Dr. Frank E. Waxham, of Denver, well known to the Chicago profession, recently made a few days' visit in this city.

Dr. N. Senn has been appointed as official representative of the United States government to the Madrid Congress.

Professor Enrico Bottini, of Pavia, senator of Italy, and distinguished surgeon, died March 11th, at the age of 65.

Leon H. Dombro, a Russian, was fined $100 and costs, March 23, for practicing medicine in Chicago without a license.

Professor Koch has been elected a foreign associate member of the French Academy of Sciences in place of the late Professor Virchow.

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Dr. Deucher has, for the third time, been elected president of the Helvetian or Swiss Confederation. He was elected for the first time in 1886.

Dr. S. C. Plummer was married March 18th to Mary Louise Middleton, of Davenport, Iowa, and with his bride has gone abroad for a few months.

An addition to Augustana Hospital, Chicago, is to be erected this spring at a cost of $100,000. It will be fireproof, six stories high, and 110 by 130 feet.

Dr. Allan Macfadyean of the Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicine claims to have elaborated an efficient prophylactic and curative serum for typhoid fever.

It is announced that the $50,000 necessary to secure a like amount from Andrew Carnegie has been secured by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

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9 and 5:30.

The Alumnæ Association of the Woman's Medical School held their 23rd annual meeting at the Business Woman's Club, 230 S. Clark street, on April 29th.

For Rent.-Office hours, furnished, in the Columbus Memorial Building, to a physician. Apply to Dr. J. R. Pennington, suite 901 Columbus Memorial Building.

A patient in the Williamsport, Pa., Hospital, suffering from rabies, is reported to have been cured by intravenous injections of formalin solution.-Med. Rec.

The Physicians' Club of Chicago, under the chairmanship of Henry T. Byford, on March 20th discussed the subject of "The Race Problem in the United States."

Dr. Frances Dickinson, of Harvey Medical College, has adopted the ingenious plan of having students practice the various surgical sutures on small embroidery frames.

Dr. Daniel R. Brower has accepted the invitation to deliver the doctorate address before the medical department of the University of Nebraska, at Omaha, May 14th.

Professor von Bergmann's scheme for the erection of an Empress Frederick Institute for post graduate courses for physicians has been approved by the Emperor William.

Dr. Hill, of the Boston health department laboratory, has been recently testing formalin as a remedy for blood poisoning, and reports that he has found it to be of no use.

Dr. Frank Billings announces that one individual has offered to give $100,000 or a large tract of land to the Children's Hospital Society, and that another person has pledged $75,000.

The Tri State Medical Society of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, held its 11th annual meeting April 2nd and 3rd at Hannibal, Mo., under the presidency of Dr. Alexander Hugh Ferguson.

Advance programs for the American Medical Association and the Illinois State Medical Society meetings give promise of great interest. Railroads are making their usual reductions on the certificate plan.

The Denver Academy of Medicine, formed in Denver, Col., to maintain a home and meeting place for members of the medical profession and to provide for a medical library, was organized March 31.

The Philadelphia councils have passed an ordinance declaring expectoration on the sidewalks, in public conveyances, and in other places resorted to by the public, a nuisance and prejudicial to health,

the offender or offenders being liable to a fine of one dollar and costs for each violation.

Dr. Louis Starr, of New York, has brought suit against the New York Herald by bill in equity, alleging the fraudulent and unlawful infringement upon the copyrights of Dr. Starr's book, "Hygiene of the Nursery."

Nearly 3,000 persons have signed a petition to the Italian government for a pension in favor of Signora Magdalena Grametta, near Naples who during 20 years of married life has become the mother of 62 children, 59 boys and 3 girls.

The Medical College for Women in Canton, China, was formally opened on December 17th, 1902, by the United States consul. Thirteen young women are studying medicine in the institution, while the applicants for admission next year number 60.

A society for instruction in tropical medicine has been formed in Philadelphia, the object of which is to instruct physicians in the special diseases likely to be encountered in tropical countries. Many of the leading physicians of the city are interested in the movement.

For Rent: Office hours from 1:00 p. m. in furnished office, room about 10x20 (very light room) on 10th floor of Venetian building, 36 Washington street. Includes use of waiting room, telephone, etc., etc. Enquire of Dr. A. E. Baldwin, 1013 Venetian building, 'phone 2716 Central.

Dr. S. Weir Mitchell has written a detective story, described as having a distinct psychological and ethical interest. It is about to be issued by the Century Company under the title of "A Comedy of Conscience." Dr. Mitchell is likely the oldest active writer of stories for the English speaking public.

A bill has been introduced in the senate of the New York legislature to exempt from taxation all personal property situated within any city of the first class, and belonging to any incorporated medical society of any county, provided that the property is used for the purposes of the society and not otherwise.

The board of health of Rockford, Ill., having come to the conclusion that cats are largely responsible for the spread of contagious and infectious diseases, has issued an order that all cats living in the houses in which there are cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, or other contagious diseases shall be put to death.

The Trustees of the State University of Illinois in their annual meeting this month at Champaign, Ill., appointed a committee of three to consider the affiliation of the Harvey Medical College of Chicago with the University of the State of Illinois. The members of the committee are Messrs. Ballard, McClean and Nightingale.

The Chicago department of health advocates the vacuum method of cleaning sick rooms, saying that "consumption, pneumonia, influenza, scarlet fever and similar diseases are known to be spread by infected dust of the sick room, so the distinct and recognized purpose of the operation shall be to remove and not simply to stir up the ever-gathering dust."

By vote of the faculty of the Northwestern University Medical School a resolution was recently adopted looking to the organic union of the Chicago Medical College and the Northwestern University, with a prospect of its early consummation and the erection of additional clinical dormitory and hospital facilities in connection with the present buildings on Dearborn street.

The German medical world has recently celebrated the eightieth birthday of Esmarch. A committee comprising Prince Henry of Prussia, Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, the oculist Duke Charles Theodor of Bavaria, Prof. Gussenbauer and many others eminent in the medical profession, are formulating plans for the erection of a monument to Esmarch in Faenning, his native city.

April 14th the St. Louis Medical Society of Missouri gave a banquet in honor of Dr. Simon Pollak, Dr. William Johnston, Dr. William M. McPheeters and Dr. J. B. Johnson, all ex-presidents of the society and all over 86 years of age, and all having practiced Inedicine over 50 years. Dr. Pollak was the oldest of the quartette and the banquet was given on his 86th birthday.

Dr. Lorenz is about to return to Chicago to again see the Armour child and incidentally to establish his former assistant, Dr. Mueller. We hope that Dr. Lorenz will receive a cordial welcome, one commensurate with his contributions to surgery, but we trust that a repetition of the hysterical and sensational methods of the daily press, and unfortunately of the profession at large, may be avoided. Dr. Lorenz may be gratified at imitation, which is said to be sincere flattery, but he can take little satisfaction in the use of his name by all sorts of sharpers, as for instance, certain parties in the east who are now curing blindness by the Lorenz method of bloodless surgery.

The Memphis Keeley Institute has brought suit against the Leslie E. Keeley Company of Dwight, for $100,000 for violation of contract. The plaintiffs paid $50,000 for the sole and exclusive use of the socalled chlorid gold treatment in Tennessee, and was to be furnished the medicine at a discount of 40 per cent. The plaintiffs also allege that the defendant sold double chlorid of gold remedies, which were different in their constituent and component parts from chlorid of gold remedies. The drugs "are deleterious and dangerous to health of the patient" says the bill, "bringing about great physical weakness, dilation of the eyes, dryness of the throat, full feeling in the head, often confusion of ideas, impairment of memory and weakness of mental capacity."

The board of regents of the University of Michigan at a recent meeting decided to provide Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia and appropriated $2,500 for this purpose. Residents of Michigan will be treated free of charge, while patients from other states will be charged the same price that they would have to pay at a private institution. It will be necessary for each individual who applies for free treatment to present a certificate of residence from the mayor cf his city or the president or clerk of his town board. All patients must provide for their own board and room while being treated. Dr. Thomas B. Cooley, a graduate of the literary department of the University with the class of 1891 and of the medical department with the class of 1895, will have charge of this work under the supervision of the director of the hygienic laboratory.

The Chicago health department notes that smallpox is gradually disappearing and Dr. Spalding, chief medical inspector, believes that the worst is over for this season. The usual features of never vaccinated, disproportion of colored children and children under school age still obtains. Of 24 fatal cases during the year, 19 were under 6 years of age, while there has not been a fatal case for six years among the vaccinated school population. Influenza is still rampant and shows a large proportion of the death rate in the last four weeks, a rate even higher than during the winter. As a fatal complication of consumption and associated with pneumonia and heart. disease among the aged its effect is very fatal. Measles and whooping cough are still prevalent and of unusual severity. Diphtheria and scarlet fever are decreasing. Parents are warned to use every precaution to guard children from contagious diseases. Rabies are still prevalent in the neighborhood of 55th street and Halsted. Dur